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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 BY ROGER E. OLSON Can One Be an Evangelical Christian and Roman Catholic? This question—whether one can be both a Roman Catholic and an evangelical Christian has arisen many times before. Now some are asking it in relation to the reported conversion of recently retired senior editor of Christianity Today editor Mark Galli. Some historical background to my response is in […]
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020 BY JAMES F. MCGRATH Evangelicalism’s representatives tend to be characterized by two major characteristics: loud denunciation of the sins of others combined with the revelation sooner or later that those individuals were themselves living lives that are sinful by their own standards. Sometimes they are the very same sins they denounced, but not always. […]
JULY 8, 2020 BY LIBBY ANNE If your social media feeds are anything like mine, you’ve seen advertisements for the new PBS series The Vote, which focuses on the suffragette movement and the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. My brain goes weird places when I see this, and I’ll tell you why. […]
By Paul A. Djupe and Ryan P. Burge Last fall, we wrote about the extent to which white Protestants believed Donald Trump was anointed by God to be president of the United States. Just 21% believed this, but evangelicals were more likely to believe it (29%), and pentecostals were the most likely (53%). This belief didn’t come […]
MARCH 5, 2020 BY MICHAEL F. BIRD Over at the White Horse Inn is a great discussion with Richard Bauckham, D.A. Carson, Craig Blomberg, Andreas Kostenberger, Lydia McGrew, and others on the authorship of the Gospel of John. I’m glad to say that Mike Horton sides with Richard Bauckham here! For me, part of a clincher is John […]
FEBRUARY 10, 2020 BY FELLOW DYING INMATE Evangelists were elites representing two percent of the total population who could read and write—because their context was far removed from the Galilee, sometimes they are at a loss to understand the sayings and stories of Jesus. Evangelists, pray for us! Being a disciple of Jesus has never been easy. […]
FEBRUARY 9, 2020 BY JONATHAN AIGNER I think it’s a legitimate question. I should probably included a disclaimer here. If you’re not already concerned with bad worship in the church, or if you’re blissfully unaware that such a thing exists, you may not like this post. You should read it anyway, because you need to know. […]
JANUARY 18, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Man alive, ain’t nothing more entertaining to me than watching Christians argue about doctrine. And their slapfights around the Toronto Blessing (TTB) might be some of the best reality-TV the religion’s had in recent memory. This whole thing happened decades ago, but they’re still not ready to make nice–even at the […]
JANUARY 9, 2020 BY JAMES F. MCGRATH There have been a lot of discussion on blogs and elsewhere online about the possibility that U. S. president Donald Trump might be the antichrist. Ironically, and at the same time both disappointingly and rather refreshingly, this discussion hasn’t been among those who’ve been predicting the imminent arrival of the […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA JANUARY 7, 2020 We know atheists are more liberal than the general public. We know white evangelicals are more conservative. So here’s a question: Which side is the American public in general closer to on a variety of hot-button issues? Is it fair to call white evangelicals “extremists”… or are atheists actually […]
JANUARY 5, 2020 BY RFR By Amy Marie Ayres — I was a 22-year-old single female living in Southern California. The worst thing you could say about me is that I smoked a lot of pot. I didn’t have a heavy-drinking problem, I wasn’t into hard drugs, I wasn’t sexually promiscuous, but I often felt like a […]
BY BETH STONE BURNER DECEMBER 28, 2019 Leith Anderson, the current head of the National Association of Evangelicals, is one of the few prominent evangelical pastors who has stayed relatively silent on all things political. Given the number of times we’ve heard from the likes of Franklin Graham and Robert Jeffress about how Donald Trump is the next best thing to the […]
Dan Barker at the Global Atheist Convention Melbourne March 2010.
NOVEMBER 29, 2019 BY ROGER E. OLSON Has Franklin Graham Gone Off the Rails? According to many news reports, during a podcast interview with author Eric Metaxas Billy Graham’s son Franklin Graham said that opposition to President Trump is “almost demonic” and amounts to “spiritual warfare.” This took me back, way back, to the days of […]